Question

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics keeps track of all border crossings through ports of entry along the U.S.-Canadian and U.S.-Mexican borders. The Web file BorderCrossings contains data on the number of personal vehicle crossings (rounded to the nearest 1000) at the 50 busiest ports of entry during the month of August (U.S. Department of Transportation website, February 28, 2013).a. What are the mean and median number of crossings for these ports of entry?b. What are the first and third quartiles?c. Provide a five-number summary.d. Do the data contain any outliers? Show a box plot.